On one side heaven, on the other hell; this was the scene that t Erald Sparrow's eyes, and no description could have been more apt.
"Hehe, I just knew it, teacher would co looking for . Teacher really cares about ."
After showing off everything she had done, Bai Jingxuan seed to still be quite excited. As she spoke, she suddenly reached out to hug Erald Sparrow's arm and said happily, "That bad guy just now said I have no parents, that my mom and dad are fake, but I don't care at all. I have them now!"
"Right, teacher? You could be considered my mom now, couldn't you?"
As she rambled on to herself, she turned to the Remnant Beasts that was barely showing signs of life, and as if a naive little girl showing off, she said, "See, this is my mom! My mom ca to save . Do you have one? I'm making you so jealous!"
However, as she drew near, Erald Sparrow could clearly sense that the Remnant Beasts probably couldn't hear Bai Jingxuan's words.
——It was already dead, its body was just lingering.
Perhaps Bai Jingxuan had killed it from the start and then simply engaged in pointless acts of venting her anger; or perhaps Bai Jingxuan's subsequent torture had slowly stripped away its life. Either way, the Remnant Beasts was thoroughly dead.
Erald Sparrow looked at Bai Jingxuan once more, and saw that the girl, as if she had endless things to say, was still rattling on and on, explaining sothing and constantly seeking affirmation, as if hoping Erald Sparrow would take a stand.
——She was uneasy, she was hoping to be praised.
Erald Sparrow realized this.
She looked around in silence, observing the cruel yet rciful, the bloody yet holy scene. After a long stare and inner reflection, a sense of enlightennt arose within her.
She suddenly understood why, right after the Full Moon Festival battle concluded, Lin Xiaolu had said those words to her.
At that ti, Lin Xiaolu was clearly afraid of the part of herself that had killed Mosi but still resolutely ca over, took her hand, and said, "Let's go back."
Erald Sparrow didn't know what drove Bai Jingxuan to do all this now, or if there was any elent of imitation involved, but the scene before her was strikingly similar to herself back then.
With this realization, she also understood what she needed to do now.
Without saying much, she just approached Bai Jingxuan, slowly spread her arms, and suddenly embraced the girl who appeared to still be in an excited state.
Then, she reached out and gently patted the back of the girl's head.
"Let's go back," she said softly.
"Go back? Where?" The girl, suddenly embraced, was clearly confused and her questioning voice was filled with hollowness.
Although the girl was in Erald Sparrow's arms, sohow she seed insubstantial, as if she might at any mont turn into green smoke and drift away to the unknown.
This wasn't enough, she thought to herself.
Just like this didn't seem sufficient to bring back Bai Jingxuan – the girl she knew – she needed to do sothing more, to pull her away from the brink of losing control.
So, what more could she actually do?
The answer seed to have beco obvious.
"...Co back with mom."
Pursing her lips, Erald Sparrow tried to make her voice even softer. She patted the girl's back, just ever so gently consoling her: "Let's go back to our secret base, let's go ho."
"...Mom?"
"Yes."
"Is it really mom? Does teacher want to be my mom?"
"Yes, I do."
"Does mom want to go back with her?"
"Mom wants you to co back with her."
Erald Sparrow held Bai Jingxuan tightly, as if in fear that she would run away at any mont: "I will lead you, you follow , shall we go back and find your sister, okay?"
After this sentence, there was endless silence.
In the silence, the girl in Erald Sparrow's embrace slightly lifted her head, and her heterochromatic beastly eyes t Erald Sparrow's gaze.
She watched Erald Sparrow inexplicably, in silence. After a while, she suddenly smiled again, and the blackness in her sclera began to recede like an ebbing tide.
"Okay, mom."
As she said this, the blackness of her dress scattered like wilting flowers, and the disseminating black Magic Power quickly vanished into the air, flowing away to so unknown place.
The black dress turned white, and the white turned into her usual attire, and then the girl simply collapsed into Erald Sparrow's embrace.
Looking down, Erald Sparrow felt as if everything that had just happened was like an Illusionary Realm, leaving behind just an ordinary-looking little girl lying quietly in her arms.
Her face bore a relaxed and peaceful smile, snuggling up to Erald Sparrow without any guard, sweetly, beautifully, and falling into a deep slumber.
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